The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-02-09
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal aud Local.

Personal aud Local.
L. Allen has been appointed agent and tele- |
graph operator of the c., l., st. L. & c. at
North Indianapolis
Charles e. Gore, of Lafayette, has been of
fered and has accepted the position OF superin-
tendent of the Indianapolis works.
Charles r. Sands, the newly-appointec super
sntendent of the Atlantic & Pacific road. took
charge of his department on Monday last his
quarters are at Albuquerque.
The east-bound trunk-line tonnage in Decem-
Der was 053, SI8 the largest ever known in that
month. The tonnage for the year was Ii, 23b-
TO- which was only exceeded in 1880 and 1852
S. F. Cornell, train dispatcher the Wanda
lia was Monday evening married to MISS
Belle Taylor, of Terre Haute. The bride was
the recipient of a number OF valuable presents
The toning up of rates to theatrical troupes
and ceasing to be liberal with passes to advance
agents, ETC., WILL it is stated, drive many OF the
cheap troups which are roaming over the coun-
try off the road.
Under the new management the ONO q
Mississippi road seems to be doing good busl-
ness and increasing it's earnings, which in
January exceeded those of the corresponding
month of 1856, $l6,932
Albert Stein, of this city, has been appointed
contracting agent Of the Blue line in this terri
tory. Albert is active young man, and well
thought of by our business men, and will make
good record without doubt
John Eean, general passenger agent of the c..
l., St. l.. Il C., telegraphed last evening that all
trains again arriving and departing at the
Central Union Depot, Cincinnati. all trouble
from the high waters being over.
George Bradbury. the new general manager
of the Lake Erie 81 Western road, is this week
making an inspection of the property. He is
taking plenty of time, that he may be enabled to
learn its real condition and what Improvements
needed
Railroad building during the first FIVE weeks of
this year has been about two and one-haif times
as great as that of the corresponding period in
1856 Well-informed persons predict that 1887
is to surpass all former years in the way OF rail-
road building
The Grand Rapids s. Indiana has issued
order that trainmen kept out after hours by rea
son Of accident, delays other causes shall be
paid for such extra time-engneers, 3S cents
per hour conductor, 30 cents; fremen, baggage
men and brakemen, 20 cents.
The Northern Pacific Railroad Company have
lately made advance in the wages of trainmen
on the Pacific divsion.-a raise of about 10 per
cent Passenger conductors receive $l10 per
month; passenger brakemen, sec; baggagemen,
800; freight conductors, 800; freight brakemen,
500
An investor asks the Boston Herald which is
the safest and most promising stock to invest
In, the c. c., G. 81 l. or the ST. Paul d Duluth
road The financial editor very sensibly answers
the investor that the c., c.. G. & /. stock is the
better investment and the Duluth specula-
ton.
little over one year ago there was but one
regular railroad Office in Los Angeles 1t was
that of the Kentucky corporation. Now there
are many In fact. nearly every leading rail-
road In the country has representative there.
It means business and shows the growing i'm
portance of Los Angeles.
H. r. Dering, assistant general passenger
agent of the Pennsylvania lines. expresses the
opinion that the outcome of this lnterstate-com.
Inerce bill, so far as it relates to the passenger
service, will result in the establishing of uni
ant. In Votn oil n1o I'd
travel and the making of concessions in rates &c
none.
The employees Of the Pittsburg Fort Wayne
& Chicago road at the shops in Allegheny are
not pleased with their foreman, claiming that
he is too domineering and last week they, after
finishing their work, hung him in efgy. A suit
of clothes stuffed and hanged to a lamp-post
~neaf~Ene shops. 1t is said the leaders will hear
from their employers before the end of the
month
Said an old railroader, yesterday, it is sur
prising how many of the new cars the car-works
of this country are turning out are poorly con
structed. Why, said he, we have cars marked
40 600 pounds capacity which are no more capa
BILE of carrying that tonnage than are some o.
our 2600O-pounds capacity cars, which were bull
some years ago.
legal fraternity regards the effect of the inter
state commerce bill on scalpers. and they tax
the ground that scalper is not a carrier but
bunon on railroad service that they cannot YER
well rid themselves of, and that, under the law
they continue to scalp tickets, or even sci
them for roads at cut rates, providing the scalpe
is paS in commissions.
In reply to the question, what is to become O
the poolss railroad president, last evening
said: without doubt the associations will b
continued. and probably will be known as divif
ion bureaus, where statements OF statistical
value will be looked after and preserved for rel
erence when the country will have had it's fill Q
the interstatecommerce bill. and will be glad t
return to the old methods of railroading."
The recent railroad casualties by which 8
many lives have been lost. including those who's
names we're unknown, suggest a needed reforr
in tho methods of railroad passenger traffic. Tn
name Of every passenger should be taken as
she boards a railway train. The adoption
snch system would leave no nameess victim
of a railroad holocaust, and the harrowin
doubts of the families and friends Of missin
travellers would be speedily set at rest.
Shippers are beginning to realize what is b.
fore them when they make applications fl
special rates that they may be able to enter int
contracts covering the time required to fill sue
contracts, which often extend over months. Tn
only answer they receive from the freigh
agents is: 1--WE will continue this special RAJ
as heretofore but cannot guarantee this speci
rate, or name any other rate beyond the tin
that the interstate-commerce bill takes effect"
At the semI-annual meeting of the Nation
Association of General Passenger Agents, he
in New York in September last the question
uniform style, contract (conditons) and color f
through tickets was referred to committee wit
instructions to report at the annual meeting
March. The committee is now in active corr
spondence with the general passenger agen
procuring data for their report 1t is great u
-dertaking. in lew of the multiplicity of form
now in use, but order may eventually grow OIL
ofchaos.
The purchasing committee of the Wabash ra
road property announce that on March they e
pect to take possession of their property When Il
road was sold by order Of the United States Di
trict Court 1T was ordered that the committ
should pay to the court on before March
. 1887 $l.000O00, and give bond in the sum
81 900. 900 TO pay such awards as the court mig